Paper lead for the upper decks of printing presses



Sept. 2, 1930. H. A. W. WOOD PAPER LEAD Pox THE UPPER DECKS 0F PRINTINGPRE'SSES Fild Dec. 20, .1926

I 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 llllli Sept. 2, 1930. H. A. w. WOOD 1,774,779

P APER LEAD FOR THE UPPER DECKS OF PRINTING- PRESSES Filed Dec. 20, 1926h :Z Sheets-Sheet 2 v Patented Sept. l 193( of the invention will appearhereinafter.

had tothe accompanying 'that the webs, as delivered, 'willrunparallelwith-each other and' one1over"the'other, in registratiomitothe folder;This would neces-v I theplacing of v another reel'beyond-the endreelR.Toover- 5 come this difiiculty; shorten the" web path, anclzse t rethe'f advantagesincident to the the press showing also thepath ofthe webfrom" the supply roll to the upperideck. 3G Y sible, on the floor level,:one beside another 7 a deck located abovethem,

HENRY A. wIsE woon, or

- I v in H ew. YORK, n. 5., AssIenort-rowoon nnwsrerim Ms CHINERYCORPORATION, or NEW YORK; 1\T. 2;,njdo3ro1earion or vmemm PAPERLEADFORHTHE UPPER ecks or amma 333553 Application filed December 20,1926." Serial Il'e. 155,949." '1 p ,Q v v This invent-ion relates tothat class of prlnt-r ing presses in which, on account of the lack offloor space or for other reasons, the press is placed ontop of one ofthe usual units, forming an-upper deck. v

Theprincipal object of the inventionisto provide means for feedingthefwebto the upper deck and from that to'thej -fold1ng mechanism,without encountering the difii: culties that have structions.Thes'edifiiculties were due to the fact that the web had to be carriedto the upper deck from a lev'el below the lower decks,

and from the furthermost point 01": the units placed on the floor. Iprovide a more direct pathfor the web from the supply roll to the upperdeck;

Reference is to be drawings in which 7 r v I 7 I Fig. 1 is a side viewofa printing presshav ing a plurality with a preferred embodiment of thisinvention applied there- Fig.- 2 is a plan of the same; and Fig. 1s-afragmentary end' viewtot Printing'pressunlts are arranged, fposj with apaper supply directly; underneath v them on a lower level, ordinarilycalled the reelroom; When an additional unit is re- 1 ,web is printed itwill go quired and there is'po morecfloor, room for it,;it is common'tofplace it upon one. of the existingv units. 1 This, however, involvesthe problem of feeding the paper to is necessary tobring the paper to'the upper the furth'erinostpointinthe'series of units on the floor.

more directly into the folder. The advantageofthisisfpartly overcome thefact t'h'at the web rollio'r arranged. at the Op-g series of, units and"the upper deck had to be pposite enjdgoii the whole a unit of a eralinits;

beenround-in previous conf pos tions.

the upper j will 'nisnrF. Other objects and advantages 1 I the pressareall-placed with the axes of the H of units at the fioorlevel andf nst s-11 1 3 rolls l arranged 'longitudinaljwith{respect'to thelength of thepress, or at right angles to.

he' us'i a'l construction This enables me; to put this'reel, or whateversupportis used, 'atthe sideaoff'one of'the reels R as shown v a fmoreclearly in Fig. 2. The web "is then run j] j V 85 v overagnideroll10aI dov-er turning run over'the other a webs and in registrationtherewith to the i' unit I]; This web, is thenoperated upon;- 905-livered at the top and down into thefolderif I in registration with theother three webs, in"-" l 4 this particular machine. i i a J. I

v i: This shortens the web path from the running. web roll'to the; upperdeck'and that without.hindering theway in which'the web is finallydelivered 'frompthat unit or deck to ,In' addition tO 'theQfactthat it;shortens the "length: of the I web path, it, 10f

7 It p asses p the upper- :deck, which involves several difficulties. It

V ldeckfroin the endofthe press, thatis,.fr0n

This deck is placed near the rold ing unit, when convenient, sojthatafter the} more vpress unlts.

For the-purpose of solving these difficulties I'have provided a.novel-arrangement .for; r

feeding'an upper deck without carrying the paperall the way through oroverfthe sevlnthis case, the three lower'units U are" indicated atthefloor level" arranged in lin e asusua'l. i'The ,three'reels Rfor-carrying the spare'r'olls and therunning rollfor supplying the webare indicated in their usual deliver directly' to ftheifolding'mecha wOn the frame of the machine 1 r above one'of.therunits'isplaced theunitU of leckin the usual positionwhere 1t v "It-"will be seen' that theunitstof printing-couples parallel with eachother so under the oldpractice,

sitate,

I have provided a reel; Rfdi' supplyupwardly at the side; as indicatedFig.- '3'.

bars-'11 to turn-this web to:

in the usual way 'in this'upper' deck and fde the folder;

.courseynecessitates more sp acejat'the side for;

I the extra reel R. That space, however, is

paper printing press and'can be used gen-- more-apt to be available thanfurther space at the end. 1 a

a It will be understood of course that, although I have illustrated anddescribed only a single type ofpress, this invention. is independent ofany particular type of newserally in the newspaper industry. Although Ihave illustrated and described only one form of the invention I am awareof the fact that modifications can be made therein by any person skilledin the art Without de I parting from the scope of the invention asexpressed in the claims.

Therefore, I do not wish to be limited to i the details of constructionherein shown and described, but what I do claim is Y 1. In a newspaperprinting. machine, the combination with a lower deck consisting ofplurality of units and an'upper deck having means for receiving a web,printing it, and delivering it to a folding mechanism, the printingcouples of the two decks being arranged parallel of a websupply devicefor the upper deck delivering aweb thereto in V 'avplane, which; at theweb supply, is substan- 'tially at right angles tof-the plane at whichthe webs aredeliveredto the units of the lower deck, and meansassociated with the upper deck for turning the web torun in a directionparalleltoithe path of the webs from the lower deck intothe foldingmechanism. g a 2. In a newspaper printing machine, the combination witha lowerdeck and an upper deck, ofa support having a web roll for isupplying the upper deck located at the end "of oneof the pressunitsqand at a levelbelow it and delivering the web ina-directiontransverse to, the direction in-which the webs are delivered-totheunits'offtheclower deck, in a path locatedbeyond the end of one of thelower decks from below said lowerdeck to i l the upper deck. c p 7 thetop of thatlower deck, and turning bars between the uppjer and lowerdecks for turning'said webinto a path parallel with and above the webpaths of the lower decks into Intestimonywhereof have hereunto affixedmy' signature.

HENRY A. WISE WOOD.

